Mardi Larson, 612/683-3538

GERMAN CLIMATE COMPUTER CENTER ORDERS CRAY RESEARCH
SUPERCOMPUTER

EAGAN, Minn., Feb. 28, 1994 -- Cray Research today announced
that Germany's primary climate research support facility, the
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH (DKRZ), has ordered Cray
Research's top-of-the-line supercomputer system, a CRAY
C916 system.  The system is scheduled for installation in the
second quarter at DKRZ's facilities in Hamburg. 
 
With 12 processors and 256 million words of memory, the new
system will be one of the most powerful supercomputer
systems in the world used exclusively for climate research. 

The CRAY C916 system will replace a CRAY-2 system and a
CRAY Y-MP4E system currently in use at DKRZ.  Funded by the
German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, the new
Cray Research system will be used for climatological
research, primarily global modeling of environmental
phenomena such as the predicted global warming due to
greenhouse gas emissions.  

DKRZ supports the computing needs of researchers throughout
Germany for meteorology, climatology and oceanography and
climate impact research,  mainly on behalf of the German
Climate Research Programme sponsored by the Ministry of
Research and Technology. 

Wolfgang Sell, technical director of DKRZ, said that "the new
CRAY C916 system will allow German researchers to model
both global and regional climate effects and to develop
methods for separation of human-induced and natural
variability of the climate.  Single runs of the computer
modeling programs can be completed within a few months on
the new system which would have taken many years on the
currently installed computers."

According to John Carlson, chairman and chief executive
officer of Cray Research, growing worldwide concern over
weather-related environmental issues continues to benefit
sales of Cray Research systems. 

"This upgrade for one of the world's leading climate modeling
research centers reflects the growing demand for the most
powerful computer resources available to study complex
environmental problems," said Carlson.  "The environmental
science industry has become important to Cray Research and
we are pleased to continue to provide these resources to
leading environmental science facilities."

Currently, Cray Research has more than 500 systems installed
worldwide, of which 38 are installed at weather centers and
environmental research facilities in the U.S., Europe, Canada
and India. 

Cray Research creates the most powerful, highest-quality
computational tools for solving the world's most challenging
scientific and industrial problems. 

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